1 hour ago, Boyne said:

An exhausted scoreboard operator that day.😀

Probably posted before but worth posting again. Can't beat a bit of nostalgia!

A bit different.

 

Happy Birthday to John Dempsey, who is 75 years old today.
 

Edited March 15, 20215 yr by erskblue

Against Glasgow Select 1965 and David Stride in the middle both photos posted by Chris Mears on Twitter.

 

2 hours ago, Boyne said:

Only ever went in that pub once and that was on a none match day since we was passing by .

Got me thinking mindyou ,has any mob of other teams lads ever steamed into above pub on whatever matchday ? 
 

I dont ever recall if any of the lads ever used this place mob handed since it was far too close to ground and Police .

Might have been different in the through the 1970s ,i shall ask ?

9 hours ago, erskblue said:

 

Happy Birthday to John Dempsey, who is 75 years old today.
 

Oh deary me .
 

I see a 3 way crossbreed  between Bobby Charlton,Noel Brotherstone ( look him up )  and John Dempsey .

Its all down to his barnet sorry to say ,but its got to be said .

Today if i was a manager of a poor performing premeirship team ,i would have it in the players Contracts that they can only 

get their haircut on my say so . 
 

Keep on playing sh*te as a team and no haircuts all round . Might even add a haircut bonus into their Contracts,such as 

the more haircuts in a season the bigger the bonus etc etc .

 

 

 

Hugh Hastings pictures.

 

Edited March 16, 20215 yr by erskblue

Most startling thing for me is the postage price. I used to buy a lot of pin badges (still do) on the stalls outside and the shop next to FB station I bought a few things but never from the official club shop.

 

Got to love a pin badge ,still collecting them all these years later....what is it with blokes and collecting stuff!.!?

40 minutes ago, F1905 said:

Got to love a pin badge ,still collecting them all these years later....what is it with blokes and collecting stuff!.!?

All blokes are geeky about something they just don't like to admit it. It goes back to childhood we all collected football cards or annuals or records and as we get older we sort of yearn for that nostalgia there you go lads a bit of cod psychology for you 😁

I think you’re right ,shoot magazines ,bubble gum cards,marbles ,scrap books ,silk CFC. scarves ha ha ,pin badges ,pendants,then a bit older more pin badges ,ticket stubs football and music ,programmes ,singles, albums ,The Jam then and now solo Weller ,books,all very obsessive....

On 15/03/2021 at 12:48, Boyne said:

When it was a decent boozer

On 15/03/2021 at 15:18, donnyblue said:

Only ever went in that pub once and that was on a none match day since we was passing by .

Got me thinking mindyou ,has any mob of other teams lads ever steamed into above pub on whatever matchday ? 
 

I dont ever recall if any of the lads ever used this place mob handed since it was far too close to ground and Police .

Might have been different in the through the 1970s ,i shall ask ?

This pub was used in the 70s by some by some of us blues to meet up and get coaches to evening matches.....once actually met ossie hutch and i think cookie not sure about the third player at opening time before a game at southampton.....

Notts County v Chelsea 1979/80 season . This would have been my 3rd Chelsea game that i went to .

I cant recall the score or the goals ,but found this after matching the dates .

All i can recall from that day/ game was the Chelsea kit ,i dont think we have had a better away kit todate .

I was freezing cold and stood rite behind the goal in Chelsea end freezing my nads off .i had plaggy bags on me hands 

as gloves and it did not help .

I can never get the Notts County manager out of my head ,even to this day i recall his name  Jimmy Squirel .The sole reason 

why i cant Shake that name is a fact  Squirel by name Squirel by nature as he looked just like his name 

 

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Just now, donnyblue said:

Notts County v Chelsea 1979/80 season . This would have been my 3rd Chelsea game that i went to .

I cant recall the score or the goals ,but found this after matching the dates .

All i can recall from that day/ game was the Chelsea kit ,i dont think we have had a better away kit todate .

I was freezing cold and stood rite behind the goal in Chelsea end freezing my nads off .i had plaggy bags on me hands 

as gloves and it did not help .

I can never get the Notts County manager out of my head ,even to this day i recall his name  Jimmy Squirel .The sole reason 

why i cant Shake that name is a fact  Squirel by name Squirel by nature as he looked just like his name 

 

notts County v chelsea 

 

Jimmy Sirrel not Squirrel 😁 looks like a doorman at a working mans club who won't let you in unless you give him 20p.

30 minutes ago, bluehaze said:

Jimmy Sirrel not Squirrel 😁 looks like a doorman at a working mans club who won't let you in unless you give him 20p.

I stand corrected on the Squirel /Sirrel mix up ,but after clocking Mr.Squirels boat race you can understand why the name Squirel has been 

lodge into my memory bank for 40 years . 
 

i seem to recall Jimmy Squirel been on either football focus ,granstand ,on the ball, World of sport or whatever football programme 

back then pre or post match of Chelsea game . Notts County should have had SIX that day with amount of certian goals they buggered up .

8 hours ago, donnyblue said:

Notts County v Chelsea 1979/80 season . This would have been my 3rd Chelsea game that i went to .

I cant recall the score or the goals ,but found this after matching the dates .

All i can recall from that day/ game was the Chelsea kit ,i dont think we have had a better away kit todate .

I was freezing cold and stood rite behind the goal in Chelsea end freezing my nads off .i had plaggy bags on me hands 

as gloves and it did not help .

I can never get the Notts County manager out of my head ,even to this day i recall his name  Jimmy Squirel .The sole reason 

why i cant Shake that name is a fact  Squirel by name Squirel by nature as he looked just like his name 

 

Always remember his ears

3 minutes ago, chi blue said:

Always remember his ears

I once clock him up a tree with no end of nuts falling out all over the place 

Rodders!

 

 

Barnsley V Chelsea back in the day . Mr.Hickmot and his small mob 

Me and a chelsea mate went into Yorkist pub in doncaster before getting the X19 bus to above game since it was direct service and the train to Barnsley was like going 

to Glasgow to Get to Leeds if you understand.

Stood at the bar was. Mr.Hickmot and about 10 other Chelsea lads . They did not know us for sure but we knew who they was .

We started talking and this small mob of Chelsea had got off train at donny  to then Get the X19 bus to Barnsley ,great minds think alike .

 

We was welcomed to tag along with Mr.Hickmot and his small mob . The weather all over Yorkshire this saturday was very very foggy and the Leeds 

home game had got called off ,but our game at Barnsley was still on .

After getting off the X19 bus in Barnsley bus station we made our way to a pub across the road .It was quite foggy in the centre of Barnsley 

and you could not see all the way down the Road ,it was like a mild pea soup .

Get to the pub and doormen are vetting us whilst in a line into the pub ,me and my mate was at the back as pecking order was rule of 

thumb i guess .

 

i big roar went up from down the road and throu the pea like soup a angry mob of 50/60/70+ came streaming out of the fog 

into our now clear as day eye line .

The doormen was still vetting the line of 12 chelsea into the pub and from my memory about 6/7 had got in when doormen went into pub

and shutting locking pub doors in our faces  as this massive mob was closing in on us with ‘chelsea bastards ‘ ringing into our ears as panic was setting in 

with a capital P .

It was Something like out of a peter cushion movie with terror and horror comming out of the fog with Yorkshire accents .The every man for himself mindset 

soon kicked in with us chelsea left outside or be kicked . I know for sure that one chelsea lad was tripped up and took a reight kicking and how i never 

got tripped up as they was at my heals i will never know. 
 

Think the fog worked in my and my donny mates favour as we seem to vanish from the Yorkshire mob or the mob vanished from us .

I say Yorkshire mob as still today i think it was Leeds lads since their gane was called off and it was the done thing back then .It might have been a Barnsley/Leeds mob but i doubt it very much ,or it could have been just Barnsley . Made our way into the ground with no stress 
 

whoever they was they seemed to be on the correct Road at the correct time as we left the bus station to the pub .

 

10 Dec 1983

Barnsley v Chelsea

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League Division Two

 

Another great pic from Chris Mears.